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(No Model.)

E. N. HATCH.

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HORACE N. HATCH, on BOSTON, MAsSAcHUSnTTs.

STOVE.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,454,1'dated February 7; 1888.

Application tiled March 18, 1886.

particularlyto an attachment thereto for re,

taining or holding down upon them pots, kettles, Src., when they are used at sea and likely to throw off the receptacles in which the cooking is done. The same consists in certain new and improved arrangements of devices for accomplishing this purpose, substantially asy hereinafter'describ'ed and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side view of a stove provided` with my improved attachl ments, as above mentioned. Fig. 2 is an end Fig. 3 isia top View. Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of the universaljoint connection used with my device.

S is the stove, which on board a vessel is customarily fastened to ,the floor. It has around it the usual rail,s, supportedy upon posts s' on top of the stove, and serving .to keep the vessels used for cooking from sliding off. Vhen, however, the vessel gives a lurch beyond a certain angle, these cooking-vessels are :frequently thrown 'against the rail s, which l then only serves to capsize them.

y My improvement is designed to obviatc this difficulty. To accomplish this I cause to rest upon the floor on each side of the stove up# right rods a a, rwhich I carry past the rail s on each side and attach to the rail by sleeves s2 and set-screws s, the rods a sliding easily through the sleeves 'sz and being secured 'by the set'fscrews s3.y The rods s are attached to the top of the stove, so as to give a firm support to'the rods a a2; but they may be set into the stove-top, so as tov be removable, and in that event I have provided additional sleeves, s",

having short studs projecting from them a suf Aicient distance to reach under the stove-body, and provided with set-screws '35.

By mounting these upon the vertical rods a, as shown in Fig. 1, and setting up their vset-screws, they may be made to serve to hold the feet'aofthe rods .a firmly upon the Hoor, and also to'hold the rods s in place on top of the` stove. The lower ends of rods a are provided with footpieces a', bearing upon the tloor, and the sleeves serial No. 195,655. (No model.)

s2 are double-"-that is, they consist of a sleeve tting to the rods a a and a rightangled sleeve fitting to .the rods s s and sliding thereon, as is clearly shown in the drawings., Around-from the upper ends of the rods a a and over the stove they are connected by thehorizontal rod a2. The sleeves of the connections s2, which the rodsv s s, are capable of sliding thereon a tolbear solidly on the iioor the set-screwss3 sa are made to bind the couplings s2 vnotonly upon the upright rodsa, but also upon the horizontal rods s, and by loosening these setscrews I am able to slidethe rods aand rod a2 over any part of the stove desired.. This ladjustment is of importance in enabling me to slide out of the way the rods a a2 upon occa- .sions when they are not required." Mounted upon the rod a2 are'siinilar doublesleeve`coup= lings, b, consisting of a vertical sleeve and a horizontal sleeve, and a similar couplingv 1s shown attached to one of the upright rods a.,` One ofthe sleeves of. this coupling bis made to slideupon the rod aor at, and is secured'in any desired position thereon by theset-screw b', while the other sleeve has passed through it and capable of slidingtherein the straight portion of arbent arm, o, which reaches down? wardover the tops or covers of the stove, comnionly called stovelidsg7 I he'se arms care bent at right angles at c', and have a portion ofthem extending some distance inthat di-k' Y rection from the portion which slides through the coupling b, and in the case of those mountedas again bent downward and provided on` their to lit upon the rounded top or cover of a kettle or other vessel, as shown in dotted lines inY Figs. 1 andf2, and this hollowed place inthe enlargement o2 may be large enough to receive the handle of the cover and rest down around held'down by it by resting the lower end of itin the center of the pan, and this canbe done `upon the horizontal rod a2, I have shown them e lower 'ends with feet or enlargements c, which are hollowed out on theirlower faces in order` Ico y without materially interfering with the operation of cooking 'in the latter.

The portionvof the 'coupling b which slides alonr u on the rod a ora2 is also 'rov'ided s D P 6o horizontally, and Ythus by bringing thefeet a4 v with a set-screw, b2, to enable it to be fixed upon that rod in any desired position. Since the rods c are capable of turning in the sleevecouplings b, as well as sliding through them, the arrangement of the couplings with the other parts constitutes a universal joint which allows the lower ends of the rods c to be brought over any portion of the top of the stove that may be desired, and thus secure a cooking-vessel upon any part of the stove-top by simply loosening and tightening the setscrews b b2.

The capability of sliding the rods a a? across to any part of the stove and securing them there, combined with the capability of adjustment'of the rodsc by sliding upon the rods a a?, and by sliding and turning in their couplings b, enables the several adjustments to be made so as not to interfere with the use of other parts of the stove-top than those they overhang for large vessels which do not need to be held down-21s, for instance, boilers, &c.-and it also enables me to immediately remove and swing out of the way all these sev.- eral attachments-viz., rods a a2, couplings b, and rods c-without disconnecting them from each other or disturbing their capacity for immediate adjustment and use with great rapidity.

What I claim as new and of my invention 1. The combination of the stove provided with horizontal rods s, the rods a a, the couplings s2, provided with set-screws s3, and a brace or rod mounted ou rods a a, and projected downward over the stove, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the rod a, the coupling b, provided with set-screws b b2, and the bent rod or arm c, capable of sliding and turning therein and therewith, substantially as described.

3. The combination ofthe stove S, the hori- Zontal rod s, provided with the sliding couplings s2 and set-screws s, the vertical rod a, the coupling b, providedwith set-screws b b2, and the bent rod or arm c, capable of turning and sliding therein, substantially as described.

4. The combination of the horizontal rod a, the coupling b, provided with setscrews b b2, the sliding and turning bent arm or rod c, providedV with the hollowed-out enlargement c2 at its lower end, andthe stove S, substan` tially as described.

5. The combination of the stove S, the vertical rods a a, and horizontal rod a?, made adjustable transversely of the stove, the couplings b, provided with set-screws b b, and the swinging and sliding arms or rods c, substantially as described. l

HORACE N. HATCH.

Vitnesses:

N. P. OCKINGTON, DAVID HALL RICE. 

